Truthful Quotes - Page 6

He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?

Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

It's really hard to make a good film; it's really, really hard. So, the director's very important, and a character that can be described with more than one or two adjectives, maybe with contradictions. Contradictions are always good because that's truthful.

I look forward to the end of all this money-making part of the career, to be truthful.

I don't think social commentary should be planned, you just have to be truthful.

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

In this way, Allah will love the pious person because He, the Most Exalted, loves those who are pious, truthful, charitable, devout, and are sincere to Him and to His Prophet.

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

They will only care when you're gone.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

I'm doing a lot of research right now on what's happening in Arizona. That's where I'm at with more conventional documentary filmmaking. I think it is an urgent cause. I think I need to make something. I'm a part of it. Everybody's a part of it, and this country needs to know what's happening there in a very truthful way.

It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

I'm a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.

A good horror film is something that taps into something absolutely truthful about us - about what we want, about what we're terrified of - and brings that to life on screen in such a way that we can get close enough to that character to let our defenses down and want them to be safe.

A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding.